eNewsletter


The WALIS eNewsletter is a monthly email newsletter providing up-to-date news on the spatial information community. To contribute to eNews, provide suggestions or feedback or if you have subscription enquiries, please contact Melissah on 9273 7042 or at melissah.mackenzie@walis.wa.gov.au.

You can browse the WALIS eNews archive below, or alternatively you may wish to subscribe to receive WALIS eNews by email.

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October 2009 eNews

Highlights include: WALIS International Forum 2009 - Final Announcement; Spotlight on the Pilbara; Ignite Spatial; Australian Data for the Public; Tracking System to Tag Patients; Maps for the Colour-Blind are a Real Eye Opener and Map of the Future Revealed.

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September 2009 eNews

Highlights include: WALIS Success! International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) Symposium: ISDE7 2011; Spatial Volunteers; NSW Scientist of the Year Awards; CSIRO and China Geological Survey Sign Agreement; Geospatial Semantics; Twitter Working on Adding Location; Kidlandia; Monopoly City Streets; and Groovy Map Wins Big.

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August 2009 eNews

Highlights include: WALIS International Forum - Preliminary Program Now Available and Early Bird Registration Extended!; Satellites to Become Money Spinners as Australian Spatial Industry Wins Funding; Six Trails Reveal WA's Geological History; Fellow in Flight; GPS Alerts Drivers to Crashes and Jams; Australian Geography Quizzes; Australian Wine Geographic Indicators; Longer Lasting GPS; GeoMentor Program; Online Maps 'Wiping Out History'; and 'Planet Action - Call for Projects.

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July 2009 eNews

Highlights include: WALIS International Forum 2009 - Early Bird Special Now On; International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) Symposium: ISDE7 2011 Australian Bid Success; WA Spatial Excellence Awards (WASEA); ESRI Resources Symposium; Is Spatial Special?; A Legacy for the Next Generation; New Radar Tracks Drama of the Ionosphere; Social Networking with Your Feet; NASA, Japan Release Most Complete Topographic Map of Earth and Facebook 'Dipping' Craze Irks Pool Owners.

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June 2009 eNews

Highlights include: WA Surveing and Spatial Information Conference 2009, NGIS Partners with Rottnest Island Authority to Provide Complete GIS Solution, URL Shortener for Google Maps and Why We Need to See the Sea.

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May 2009 eNews

Highlights include: WALIS International Forum 2009 - Web Hot Registration Now Open!, Last Call for Entries for the WA Spatial Excellence Awards, Protecting Rare Species from Space, H1N1 (aka 'Swine Flu') Mapping and GPS Satellites Not 'Falling Out of the Sky'.

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April 2009 eNews

Highlights include: WALIS International Forum 2009 - Call for Papers, Environmental Information Initiatives Stocktake and Assessment Workshop; Assisting Victorian Bushfire Recovery with Location Intelligence, Tracing Jam back to the Strawberry Farm, GIS used to Link Pesticides to Parkinson's Risk and Virtual Jogging through Tokyo.

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March 2009 eNews

Highlights include: GeoNetwork, 2009 WA Spatial Excellence Awards, Important Announcement from SSI and ISA, Positioning the Future, Smart Sensors the Way to Go, The OGC Elects Directors and Pay-As-You Drive System Could Renew Aging Infrastructure.

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February 2009 eNews

Highlights include: Aerial Photography Update from Landgate, OZRI to Hit the Road in 2009, Mapping the Victorian Bushfires, ‘Talking’ Cars Reach Testing Phase, Introducing Google Earth 5.0, MarineMap, All Streets and Challenges Before National Mapping Organisations.

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January 2009 eNews

Highlights include: Chief Information Officer's Forum, Landgate Fee Increase, NuMaps, Google's Street View Loo Boo Boo, LCNSS is Better Than GNSS and Microsoft Surface.

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December 2008 eNews

Highlights include: Chief Information Officer's Forum, Landgate Creating Innovative Tools for Carbon Accounting, Perkler, Giant Map Offers First Complete View of Australian Geology, Lost in the City, Play. Meet. SNIF., Ordnance Survey Takes on Google and Digital Pen Converts Paper Marks to Digital.

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